What kinds of death are there?

The Holy Bible mentions three kinds of death:

• a. The natural death of the body, where person loses his present life because of the separation of the soul from the body. The fruit of the disobedience of Adam and Eve is that all humanity has fallen under this death of the body.

• g. Spiritual death, which is the separation of a person from his Creator and Savior who is the source of his sanctification, renewal, and his preparation for glory.

• h. Eternal death, which is when a person isolates himself eternally from God and clings to this isolation; and therefore tastes the bitter fruit of his own disobedience which is deprivation of eternal life. This is the second death that is mentioned in the Book of Revelation: “Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death” (Rev. 20:14).

1155 St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 8.6, 12, 19, in Brian E. Daley, Gregory of Nazianzus (Routledge, 2006): pp. 66, 69, 73.